Informatics: Data & Decision-Making in Healthcare

Heroes of Healthcare

English - December 29, 2020 06:38 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 82 ratings
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How much of your healthcare can you trust to a computer?

Turns out, it’s probably more than you think.

Health informatics play a critical role in everything from diagnosis to decision-making.

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Stanley Huff, Chief Medical Informatics Officer at Intermountain Healthcare and Clinical Professor at University of Utah in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, about the past, present, and future of informatics in healthcare.

What we talked about:

The history of computers in medicine
How informatics can help diagnose disease
How to harness data effectively to support better healthcare outcomes
The role of informatics in reducing medical error through advanced decision-support
How pandemics like COVID-19 underscore the need for more efficient data sharing

Heroes of Healthcare is hosted by Ted Weyn.

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